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The Mozarab Cross and Latina/o Spirituality: Are They Walking on the Same Path?

The Mozarab Cross and Latina/o Spirituality: Are They Walking on the Same Path?

Peter Casarella

Abstract

Raúl Gómez-Ruiz has written a learned and timely book. Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross surely merits the coveted HTI Book Prize.

More importantly, it should be read by all Latina/o theologians.

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Notes

  1. Raúl Gómez-Ruiz, Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2007), 122-23.
  2. See, for example, Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross, ch. 3.
  3. Gómez-Ruiz discusses this in Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross, 42. More gruesome details as well as a comprehensive analysis can be found in Julio de la Cueva, “Religious Persecution, Anticlerical Tradition, and Revolution: On Atrocities against Clergy during the Spanish Civil War,” Journal of Contemporary History vol. 33, no. 3 (July 1998): 355-69.
  4. Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross, 6-7.
  5. See Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross, xi-xii. See also William Christian, Jr., “Spain in Latino Religiosity,” in El Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Catholic Church, ed. Peter Casarella and Raúl Gómez-Ruiz (New York: Crossroad, 1997), 325- 30.
  6. Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross, 43.
  7. See, for example, the Pew Study: “Hispanics and the 2004 Election: Population, Electorate and Voters,” accessed on July 14, 2008 at: http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/48.pdf.”
  8. See, for example, Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross, 122, 165, 170-72 et passim.
  9. Patrick J. Geary, Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton:
    Princeton University Press, 1978), 7-9, 32-34.
  10. On this point I think that Gómez-Ruiz’s analysis should be compared to the thought of the social theorist Michel de Certeau.